Typesetting Thoughts
Wednesday, 7 November 2012; 8 pm
Wrote a bit today, and played around with my ever-evolving LaTeX template, this time misappropriated for my software major work.
I’m very tempted, now, to write my own LaTeX class which sucks in all
the necessary black magic – it should be a fun and educational
challenge to modify the book
document class, and would probably
necessitate working out how to set up font overrides for setting runs
not made with the XeTeX or LuaTeX engines (the only ones to support
all the OpenType evil I’m doing).
Amongst other things, started playing with xindy, the replacement
for makeindex, which is, as ever, showing signs of its age. There’s
no really good tutorial on how to use it, surprisingly, but as far as
I can tell, it’s possible to simply drop the texindy
command in for
makeindex
in a setting run.
Also discovered that the clock in inara is drifting insanely. I twigged to this when I saw
> l majorproject*
-rw------- 1 jashank jeremy 11243 9 Nov 20:37 majorproject.lyx
-rw------- 1 jashank jeremy 6948 9 Nov 2012 majorproject.tex
ls(1) usually reports dates in the format shown on the first line (the strftime(3) format ‘%d %b %H:%M’) – but
If the modification time of the file is more than 6 months in the
past or future, then the year of the last modification is
displayed in place of the hour and minute fields.
… so, what, this file was modified over six months in the future? Well… not quite.
> date && l -T majorproject*
Fri 9 Nov 2012 20:47:49 EST
-rw------- 1 jashank jeremy 11243 9 Nov 20:37:00 2012 majorproject.lyx
-rw------- 1 jashank jeremy 6948 9 Nov 20:48:34 2012 majorproject.tex
Hm.
So, I reckon Marty and Doc have hopped over, put a flux capacitor in inara, and gone on their merry way. If only I knew how they’d managed to do it…
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